A Request for Information (RFI) is a standard business process whose purpose is to collect written information about the capabilities of various suppliers.

According to the king of all wikis, Wikipedia; a wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language.

I love it when I open the paper in the morning and read something like “What’s Big Green and Found All Over”

Most of us have heard these three words many times before, and most of us have the same reaction when we see them in print. “Oh, I’ve heard of that.”

With gas prices approaching $4.00 per gallon (and that’s economy fuel) it may be time to figure out how to save pennies that you might not have focused on  historically in order to continue working with your legacy fuel suppliers.

Today’s retailers have so many initiatives on their plates that trying to focus on what at first does not seem to be their most important initiative (Going Green) can create a type of corporate gridlock that stops the organization from moving forward in a timely manner.

Do you ever wonder why the entire hubbub when we talk about the environment or the ecology? What does it really mean when we ask companies are you green enough?

I read two short but interesting articles lately. They indicated how not being ecologically sound in one area can have a potentially long term negative impact on safety in the food chain. One article was titled “Study finds lead in game meat”. The other was titled “Fla. warns of mercury levels in frog legs”.

E-Procurement events have been around since the late 1990’s and are commonly referred to as reverse auctions or events. These sessions can from time to time also run as forward auctions in order to reduce over stock conditions and reduce shrink. .